Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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H.U.E.R.A. is not nationally affiliated. A.F. of L. organization has been defeated three times amidst charges that the local union was receiving University...
...Inner Conceit. In 1929, Hammerstein was divorced from his first wife and married mahogany-haired Dorothy Blanchard, daughter of an Australian sea captain. With her he answered a syncopated summons from Hollywood. He arrived on the Coast amidst expectant huzzahs. But soon he was weighed in Hollywood's inexplicable scales, and found wanting. One M-G-Mogul passed the verdict around commissaries and conference rooms: "Oscar is a very dear friend of mine, but he can't write...
...Mars have arrived. Yet little more than a hoarse shout away from the Home of Secret Weapons is an underground room where precautions are just as stringent. In a small, feverish nook in the cellar of the Music Building, the University Band holds its council of war, and there, amidst sousaphones and bandstands, it plots the marching formations and intricate parade tactics that are forever eluding every other band-conscious college. The recent paint smears and Stadium grass burning are merely manifestations of the quest for the Band's know-how, and last week the fall appearance of the Band...
...Amidst the verbal fireworks, John Santo, who came to the U.S. from Rumania 20 years ago on a four-year student's visa, was almost forgotten. Unlike the Baronet of Ruddigore, who "writhed in agony," handsome, curly-haired Santo mockingly rested his head on one arm and pretended to sleep. Before the prosecution is through, however, his case might become as celebrated as the Government's unsuccessful attempt, two years ago, to deport Harry Bridges...
...took Gibbon's imagination to flood Pannini's wide, quiet ruins with the roaring tide of history: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind...